Question

The Venus fly trap is an unusual flowering plant that obtains some of its nutrients from insects. How would you investigate the structures that the plant uses to eat insects?

Answer 1

Venus flytraps are the speed demons of the plant world. In spite of belonging to a particularly sedate kingdom of organisms, these carnivorous plants snap shut their two-lobed traps in a tenth of a second to capture an insect meal, which they then digest.


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